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Published: 2015-03-27 18:26:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 3128; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 15
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He's crying because Alexander has gone, Bagoas mourns his beloved's death. He wasn't a slave, he wasn't a prostitute. Bagoas was the king's council and judge and was respected and loved by Alexander. That's all I can say.Art by me.
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Love the quality and emotion to this piece. I finished The Persian Boy recently, so I have lots of emotional baggage when it comes to Bagoas.. Absolutely lovely!ย
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Thanks) Well Mary Ranault's book is perhaps best historical novelย I could ever find out of the sea of such novels, but even still my critical mind demands correctness and what I read from historical sources differs from Renault's vision in a better direction, since in her novel the position of Bagoas is much lowered than it was in reality. She still described him as someone who in he beginning has to be a slave and prostitute while in history there was no such thing attested, only Curtius used such derogatory terms just because in Ancient Rome the castrates were despised by Roman law. So that's why I find reading 'dry' historical records more pleasing than, maybe beautiful and alluring poetry in novels, which events are twisted unrecognizably, just for the sake of drama and plot)
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That makes me feel a lot better about the book then, thank you for clearing that up. I also agree that the historical records can be entertaining on their own sometimes. I myself like reading people's memoirs the most, so I suppose that counts, haha.
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